haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (scenes-nelson sunset 2009)
There was a second explosion in the Pike River Mine today and it doesn't look as though it's possible for anyone to have survived. The methane levels inside were measured at 95% earlier today, which seems to indicate the men would probably have died fairly quickly. Today's explosion, which wasn't caused by anything the rescuers were doing, has pretty much put paid to any hopes of survivors. You can read the updates for today here if you would like more details, but the above basically covers it.

My thoughts and heartfelt sympathies go out to all the families who have lost their brothers, sons and fathers.

Phew!

Oct. 27th, 2010 09:50 pm
haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (MAOP-dom&billy)
THE HOBBIT STAYS IN NZ!

Thank you to all the listening deities.

That is all.

even if the Donkey did have to make a deal with WB, it was worth it.
haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (rough road)
This morning's 7.1 scale earthquake in Christchurch is a long way from where I live and we are not affected.

Thankfully, no one has been killed, although there are a number of injuries. Apparently water and power are the main concerns for the residents there, and they hope to have power restored to places where it's out by 6pm tonight. Water may be a different issue and people are being urged to conserve it where they can. For the rest of things, there is a lot of structural damage in Christchurch and surrounding places (the quake was felt as far away as Invercargill in the south and Taranaki in the north), but the agencies who deal with such things appear to have most issues under control. It's very lucky that Christchurch doesn't have a lot of tall buildings, although there are certainly a lot of historic places that I hope haven't sustained too much damage.

My family's thoughts and wishes go out to anyone who's been affected by this, and we will certainly be offering any help that we can.
haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (sandpic)
But it's 11.30pm, and although I'm not working tomorrow, I'm a bit tired and I've promised the girlies I will take them to the movies tomorrow morning while their brother is at Kindy (although the strop that caused in LF when I inadvertently let that cat out of the bag was not good - had to lie and say we'll go another day! *ulp* But we may actually ALL go some other time over the long weekend, so not a complete lie). "Charlotte's Web" tomorrow and maybe a cartoon over the weekend at this rate!

Summer, eh? LF was back at Kindy this week from Tues, but the girls don't go back to school til the Wed 7th. I'm not working now til then myself - Tues is NZ's national holiday, Waitangi Day (the Kiwi equivalent of Independence day for want of a better description, though it has caused more controversy than not over the years... and we don't make quite such a big event of it, it's just a day off work - oh, except when it falls on a weekend, then we get ZIP). Anyway, I needed to be home for the girls tomorrow morning because of no school and the hubby being at work, so I decided I may as well have Monday off too and be done with it. YAY! Five day weekend! Woo! Like I've worked so hard over January... no full weeks since the last week before Christmas!

So will hopefully do the beach thing here in the next 5 days. For now, you can have the icon I made out of my sand pic. Have a good end to your own weekends, and may your winter not be too cold (Summer finally got decent over here, btw).

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